The Padgling Traditions of Bhutan

Research team

Principal Investigator: Dr Stephen Hugh-Jones

Co-Investigator: Dr James Laidlaw

Principal Researcher: Dr Karma Phuntsho

Karma Phuntsho is a scholar working Buddhism, Buddhist Himalayan history and culture. After going to school in Bhutan, he was received a full monastic training in Bhutan and India. He studied Classical Indian Religions at Balliol College, Oxford and did a D.Phil. His thesis was published in 2004 as Mipham’s Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness, To be, Not to be or Neither.